How You Like Me Now? (song)

"How You Like Me Now?"
Single by The Heavy
from the album The House That Dirt Built
Released	2009
Format	Digital download, 7"
Genre	Neo soul funk rock
Length	3:37
Label	Counter

"How You Like Me Now?" is a song by British rock band The Heavy from their 2009 album The House That Dirt Built.^[1]

The song samples "Let a Woman Be a Woman" by Dyke and the Blazers.^[2]

The song was used by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in 2012, although the band sought to stop him from using it.^[3]

The song has since featured in several trailers and movies. It was used in the trailer for the 2012 movie Ted,^[4] during the closing credits for Horrible Bosses and in its sequel Horrible Bosses 2, in The Fighter^[5] when Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) walk on a road in the intro of the film, in This Means War when Tuck (Tom Hardy) and Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) were playing paintball and in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.^[6] It has also been used in the 2011 action adventure racing game Driver: San Francisco, in the closing credits for the 2012 role-playing first-person shooter Borderlands 2^[7] and 2013 platform game Knack (video game) on the PlayStation 4, and in a TV spot for the 2013 animated movie Turbo.^[8] It was also featured in the ski film Attack of La Niña. In 2014 the song was featured on the in-game soundtrack of the racing game Forza Horizon 2 for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 on the fictional radio station Ninja Tune Radio. It also appeared in the multi-platform racing game The Crew on the fictional radio station 11 FM which was released 11 November 2014 in North America.

A remix of the song was features in the video game Little Big Planet 3 while the original version appeared near the end of the level "High Stakes Heist".

The song is also used as the theme song for Intentional Talk on MLB Network. A variant of this song called "How Do You Like Me Now (Beats Mix)" was performed by The Heavy and was prominently featured in the 2010 installment of Sony's venerable baseball video game franchise MLB The Show.^[9]

The song was also used in a 2010 Super Bowl commercial for the Kia Sorrento. This ad resulted in a lawsuit by Drive-In Music Company, Incorporated because the song contained a sample from their artist Dyke and the Blazers, that song being "Let a Woman Be a Woman."

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